Spring roundup planned by National Cowboy Symposium

The National Cowboy Symposium and Celebration has scheduled a spring roundup at 6 p.m. June 9 at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center to give supporters a taste of what will come in September.

The special event will include a chuck wagon set up outside and to the north of Mahon Library, and an evening performance of Bob Wills Texas Swing music in the Civic Center Theater, according to Monica Hightower, chairwoman of the National Cowboy Symposium Board and executive director.

“Award-winning chuck wagon cooks will serve authentic fare. The Dutch oven- and iron skillet-prepared meal will include chicken fried steak, potatoes and gravy, bread and dessert, along with tea or the new NCSC “Chuck Wagon” blend coffee,” she said.

Tickets to the first “Spring Gathering,” with proceeds benefitting the National Cowboy Symposium and Celebration Silver Anniversary, are $50.

They are available online at www.cowboy.org or by emailing cowboysymposium@suddenlink.net by June 8.

“The main goal of the NCSC is to preserve and pass along the culture of the American Cowboy and the West,” Hightower said.

This year’s National Cowboy Symposium and Celebration will be Sept. 6-9 at Lubbock Memorial Civic Center and the park area across the street to the north. It will feature cowboy poetry, prose and music, along with a National Chuck Wagon Cook-off.